noun:

• number of blows (used in measuring the bpm of an air hammer, etc.)
• (number of) at bats - Baseball term ➜ 打数

noun / ~する noun:

• making necessary arrangements; laying the groundwork
• digging around the roots of a tree (before transplanting)

noun:

• under the table; word of respect added to the addressee's name on a letter

noun:

• dawn (sometimes esp. in ref. to the 16th day of the lunar month onward) ➜ 夜明け

noun:

• widow's peak; hairline that grows to a point in the middle of the forehead

noun:

• ti; si; 7th note in the tonic solfa representation of the diatonic scale

noun:

• radically change public sentiment; leading the thought of the people to an entirely different channel - four character idiom

noun:

• collectively, the 83 new LDP members of parliament elected in the Sept. 2005 general election ➜ 小泉チルドレン

noun:

• fur coat (to protect against the cold)
• clothes made with the down of birds

noun:

• Gion Festival (in Kyoto during the month of July, with high point on the 17th) ➜ 祇園祭

noun:

• dispute over the distribution of water into paddies during the summer (in rural areas) ➜ 水争い

noun:

• ceremonial removal of the coffin from the house (lay person) or temple (priest) (Zen Buddhism) - Buddhism term

expression:

• by reading books you can count the wise philosophers of the past as friends (Mencius) - four character idiom

noun:

• shelf with offerings for welcoming the spirits of one's ancestors during the Bon Festival

noun:

• first star of the Big Dipper
• top applicant in the civil service examination (Imperial China) - archaism

noun:

• plot; intrigue; scheme
• conspiracy; agreement between two or more people to commit an unlawful act - Law term

noun:

• agreement (e.g. business, dispute); understanding; compromise; settlement
• mutual relations (between family members, coworkers, etc.)

noun:

• statute of limitations; lapse of rights after a period of time; prescription (including acquisitive and extinctive prescription)
• becoming invalid or void after a set time
• ageing; aging - Chemistry term ➜ 時効硬化

noun:

• folding book

suffix / counter:

• counter for units of paper and nori (48 pages of Mino paper; 20 pages of hanshi; 10 sheets of nori)
• counter for folding books, folding screens, shields, etc.
• counter for pairs of curtains
• counter for tatami mats ➜ 畳【じょう】

noun:

• the whole world
• the whole country
• society; the public
• supremacy over a nation; government of a country; the ruling power
• having one's own way; doing as one pleases

~の noun:

• peerless; incomparable; superlative; world-famous

noun:

• shogun (Edo period) - archaism

noun:

• shiritori; word-chain game; word game in which players must give a word starting with the last syllable of the word given by the previous player

noun:

• peafowl (incl. the male peacock, female peahen, and young peachick)

noun:

• civilization and enlightenment; Japan's Westernization movement during the Meiji era (Westernisation) - four character idiom

noun:

• the five precepts (prohibitions against killing, theft, sexual misconduct, lying and intemperance) - Buddhism term

noun:

• era during the 1950s dominated by grand champions Tochinishiki and Wakanohana I - Sumo term